Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Inflation Does President Biden deliberately invite inflation? Is it some sort of cruel Jacobin redistribution scheme? As inflation roars, those of the middle class on fixed incomes or with modest passbook accounts lose 5-7 percent of their money per year. What are they supposed to do with their life-savings of $50,000–$100,000?… Continue reading Cruel, Demented, or Incompetent? Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Americans, like the planet’s other 7.5 billion people, are not prone to talk or think much about nuclear weapons. Of course, some of us are old enough to remember how “mutually assured destruction,” or MAD, was supposed to ensure the general peace. Some recall the eerie Cold War-era nuclear bomb… Continue reading Loose Nuke Talk

Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner Afghanistan How does one destroy Afghanistan in a matter of days? How could anyone just abandon a new $1 billion embassy, a huge $300 million refitted Bagram air base, and $50-70 billion in military equipment to the Taliban? How could a president virtually destroy U.S. deterrence at a time when Russia… Continue reading Cruel, Demented, or Incompetent? Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Critics of the Biden administration have a difficult time assessing motive, given the inexplicable suicidal nature of Biden’s chaotic policies. How could a kind, sane, or capable man do such things since January 20, 2021? Americans know the effects of his disastrous first 14 months but argue over the causes for… Continue reading Cruel, Demented, or Incompetent? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The left-wing professional and political classes bequeathed a number of new protocols during the Trump-derangement years. And it will be interesting to watch whether the Republicans abide by them in November should they take back the House and perhaps the Senate—and the presidency in 2024 as well. Will they follow… Continue reading The Debasement of Our Professional and Political Classes

Victor Davis HansonA Child’s Garden of Animals Any more creative (i.e., stupid) ideas? In Fields Without Dreams I wrote about our Ruby Seedless vineyard fiasco in which our cutting-edge new vineyard variety of big beautiful red grapes rotted the moment they were ready to harvest (the Ag extension officer once told me the once supposedly… Continue reading They’re Back! Warring Against the Icteridae. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Even a truncated Russian Federation has four times the pre-war population of Ukraine. It enjoys well over 10 times the Ukrainian gross domestic product. Russia covers almost 30 times Ukraine’s area. And how does Ukraine expel Russian troops from its borders when its Western allies must put particular restrictions on… Continue reading Can Ukraine Ever Win?

Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals Each March swarms of blackbirds arrive in the yard to mate, nest, hatch their eggs—and make themselves detested. Life is quiet and clean until March and then again in late June when most disappear. But now they seem to believe they own the environs and will alter… Continue reading They’re Back! Warring Against the Icteridae. Part One

From A Not Angry Reader At All: Hello Mr. Hanson, I heard you say in an interview that it would help to spread out our Federal government agencies. The FBI or Agriculture ministry and any other branch could benefit from being spread out across the USA and be away from Washington DC. I heard the… Continue reading Angry Readers 04-04-22